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Learning the City

Cultural Approaches to Civic Learning in Urban Spaces

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Editors:
  1. Hari Sacré

    1. University College Ghent , Gent, Belgium

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  2. Sven De Visscher

    1. Fac of Health, Edu & Social Work, University College Ghent Fac of Health, Edu & Social Work, Ghent, Belgium

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  • Enriches understanding of culture as a communication process and therefore a constitutive element of our cities
  • Broadens understanding of urban education by applying a cultural studies framework
  • Creates awareness in a close relation to specific urban contexts through knowledge and theories
  • Describes a cultural understanding of civic learning, reclaiming pedagogy as a central category of cultural politics in cities
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. A Cultural Perspective on the City

    • Hari Sacré, Sven De Visscher
    Pages 1-17

  3. Geographies of Hanging Out: Playing, Dwelling and Thinking with the City

    • Noora Pyyry
    Pages 19-33

  4. Storytelling in Urban Spaces: Exploring Storytelling as a Social Work Intervention in Processes of Urbanisation

    • Hari Sacré, Luc de Droogh, Ann De Wilde, Sven De Visscher
    Pages 35-49

  5. The Inner City Skater Facility—Playground or Control Mechanism? On Urban Youth, Civic Learning and Pedagogical Dilemmas

    • Peter Hornbæk Frostholm, David Thore Gravesen
    Pages 51-65

  6. Space Is More Than Place: The Urban Context as Contested Terrain of Inclusive Learning Settings for Adults and Arena of Political Subjectivation

    • Silke Schreiber-Barsch
    Pages 67-81

  7. (Re)-Learning the City for Intergenerational Exchange

    • Helen Manchester, Keri Facer
    Pages 83-98
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About this book

This book explores a cultural understanding of cities and processes of civic learning by scrutinizing urban educational topics from a cultural studies perspective. This book approaches the city as a cultural fabric that consists of social, material and symbolic dimensions, and describes how civic learning is not an accidental outcome of cities but an essential component through which citizens coproduce the city. Through a combination of theoretical development and methodological reflection the chapters in the book explore three interrelated questions addressing the relationships between culture, learning and the city: How does civic learning appear in urban spaces? How does civic learning take place through urban spaces? How are urban spaces created as a result of civic learning?

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College Ghent , Gent, Belgium

    Hari Sacré

  • Fac of Health, Edu & Social Work, University College Ghent Fac of Health, Edu & Social Work, Ghent, Belgium

    Sven De Visscher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Learning the City

  • Book Subtitle: Cultural Approaches to Civic Learning in Urban Spaces

  • Editors: Hari Sacré, Sven De Visscher

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46230-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-46229-5Published: 25 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-46230-1Published: 11 October 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2211-1921

  • Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 98

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Learning & Instruction

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